Yesterday I was sick off work because I had a temperature of about 103 and didn't want to get everyone else at work sick. Decided to go have lunch with the wife and kids (since they stayed home with me.) After lunch and heading back home my youngest pulls his arms out of his car seat and decides to try and stand up. I look back at him in my rear view and also see blueberries and cherries in a stand by manner. I immediately pull to the side of the highway I was on to remedy the seat belt issue. After I am done fixing the seat belt I notice operational berries flickering away behind me so I step back to tell him what my challenge was and he points for me to stand to the rear and I do so.
He gets out is very understanding says he has kids and he knows when they are about that age and size to be changing to a different car seat that it happens a lot. He says he noticed I did not have a seat belt on to which I admitted to being lax in just having left the arbys not 100 yards from where we sat. He said well that being the case and the fact that I pulled over in concern to a child seat belt issue he was not going to ticket me just wanted to run my license and registration before he sent me on my way. I produced both and he saw my ltch and disregarded it. I got back in my car and thought wow I get to post a +1 on INGO woohoo my lucky day. At which point he returns to my car with a summons he told me he was not going to issue me. A little preturbed but otherwise unharmed I went about my way at which point he passed me doing 65 and talking on his cell phone. I was no longer preterbed and frankly kind of
. Now I am not one to come on here and bash LEOS it just aint my bag because none of the bad cops would even show their hide here.
My question is how do you go from I am not going to write you up for such a minor thing as you showed responsibility to a child restraint to here is your summons see you in court but you already admitted to it. Before the usual questions I haven't had a seat belt ticket in almost two years, but I have had a couple.
He gets out is very understanding says he has kids and he knows when they are about that age and size to be changing to a different car seat that it happens a lot. He says he noticed I did not have a seat belt on to which I admitted to being lax in just having left the arbys not 100 yards from where we sat. He said well that being the case and the fact that I pulled over in concern to a child seat belt issue he was not going to ticket me just wanted to run my license and registration before he sent me on my way. I produced both and he saw my ltch and disregarded it. I got back in my car and thought wow I get to post a +1 on INGO woohoo my lucky day. At which point he returns to my car with a summons he told me he was not going to issue me. A little preturbed but otherwise unharmed I went about my way at which point he passed me doing 65 and talking on his cell phone. I was no longer preterbed and frankly kind of
. Now I am not one to come on here and bash LEOS it just aint my bag because none of the bad cops would even show their hide here. My question is how do you go from I am not going to write you up for such a minor thing as you showed responsibility to a child restraint to here is your summons see you in court but you already admitted to it. Before the usual questions I haven't had a seat belt ticket in almost two years, but I have had a couple.
, if it's even worth that
IL is dumb.
